A Distill alternative that checks in the cloud every hour, free
Gairė checks your pages on its own servers, so your browser can be closed. It tells you the exact change: a price, a new listing, an item back in stock.
In short
Pick Gairė if you want pages checked in the cloud every hour on the free plan, with the exact change sent by text, WhatsApp or Telegram, from checks made in Lithuania: 20 hourly pages cost €12 a month with Plus. Pick Distill if you want checks every few seconds in your own browser, pages behind a sign-in, or rules written as patterns.
Side by side
Gairė: read from gaire.lt on 22 October 2026.
Distill: read from distill.io on 22 October 2026.
| What | Gairė | Distill |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 10 pages, checked every hour, 30 texts and 300 emails a month. No card. | 25 monitors in your browser; 5 in the cloud, every 6 hours, 1,000 checks a month |
| 20 pages, checked every hour | €12 a month on Plus (up to 50 pages), or €120 for a year | $15 a month on Starter: 50 monitors, 30,000 cloud checks, every 10 minutes |
| Checks every few minutes | No. Every hour, every 15 minutes on 5 pages with Plus | Yes. Every 5 seconds in your browser; in the cloud every 10 min (Starter), 2 min (Flexi) |
| What an alert says | Yes. The item and its old and new value: “Lenovo IdeaPad Slim 5: 757 € → 699 €” | Partly. The text added and removed, highlighted; an AI summary on Flexi and Enterprise |
| Lists and rules | New items, price drops and rises, back in stock, sold out; price and word rules | New text on a list; rules on numbers, keywords and patterns ("Added Text is less than 70") |
| Text messages on the free plan | Yes. 30 texts a month, to numbers in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Portugal | No. From Starter ($15): 100 a month; countries not stated |
| Other channels | Yes. Email, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack and Discord, a signed webhook and an API | Yes. Email and app push on all plans; Slack, Discord, Teams, webhooks on paid; API: Enterprise |
| Where checks come from | From Lithuania, as a visitor there sees the page | Mostly US data-centre addresses; proxies from Professional ($35) |
| A public record of each watch | Yes. Its checks, misses and alert times, at its own address | No. Not stated on its pages; history is kept inside the account |
| Pages behind a sign-in | No. Not read: Gairė reads public pages | Yes. Free in your own browser; in the cloud with recorded logins from Starter ($15) |
| AI summary of each change | No. Not yet: it sends the item and its old and new value | Yes. On Flexi ($80+) and Enterprise |
| PDFs | No. Not read | Yes. On Flexi and Enterprise, the whole document |
Sources: distill.io/pricing, features, SMS alerts, AI change summary, PDFs, conditions, email alerts, proxy servers, Slack, Discord and Teams, webhooks, API access, cloud and local monitors, macros (sign-in), gaire.lt. Re-checked monthly.
Not affiliated with Distill. If a row is wrong, write to maksim@gaire.lt.
Who should pick which
Pick Gairė if
- You want pages checked in the cloud every hour on the free plan, with your browser closed.
- You want each item's old and new value, by text or WhatsApp included on every plan.
- Your pages are Lithuanian: Gairė checks from Lithuania, as a visitor there sees them.
- You'd like a public record of how each watch has done.
Pick Distill if
- You want checks every few seconds, in your own browser.
- The page is behind a sign-in.
- You want rules as patterns, an AI summary, or PDFs (Flexi).
- You want one tool for many monitors on its paid plans: 50 on Starter.
Questions
- Is Gairė free?
- Yes: 10 pages, checked every hour, with 30 texts and 300 emails a month, and no card.
- Does Gairė need my browser open?
- No. Gairė checks your pages on its own servers, every hour, and tells you when they change.
- How often does Gairė check?
- Every hour on every plan. Every 15 minutes on up to 5 pages with Plus. Distill checks every 10 minutes in the cloud on Starter, and every 5 seconds in your own browser.
- Can I move my Distill monitors to Gairė?
- Paste each page's address; several can be added at once. Gairė shows what it reads on each before anything is saved. Your Distill history stays there.
- Does Gairė text me?
- Texts and WhatsApp alerts go to numbers in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Portugal, included on every plan; email, Telegram, Slack and Discord work anywhere.
Also
Free, no card.